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Sunday, June 10, 2007

This is a question of fairness. John Tory and the PC Party believe that weneed to achieve more effective integration of Ontario’s increasingly diversestudent population into the mainstream of our province. That’s why we arecommitted to creating an opportunity for non-Catholic, faith-based schools tochoose to join our publicly funded education system the same way Catholicschools have already done. Our policy will apply only to faith-based schoolsand we believe that the best results would be achieved through directfunding rather than through tax credits.· With this direct public funding will come strict criteria and accountabilityrequirements. These criteria will include the expectation that participatingschools:• fully incorporate the complete requirements of Ontario’s commoncurriculum, just as in the Catholic system;• participate in Ontario’s standardized testing program and agree topublished results; and• appropriately address teacher credentialing.